Weekly Roundup - February 17, 2023

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! 

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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s 30 priorities for the Senate this session
• Two similar bills to mandate and subsidize the production of dispatchable generation
• The 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting suspect pleading guilty to over 90 offenses
• A bill to create a fund to subsidize water supply for lesser populated areas of Texas
• The Texas State Teachers Association promoting a “Week of Action” for Black History Month
• The State of Texas’ challenge to federal “Waters of the United States” regulations
• Attorney General Ken Paxton joining a lawsuit against the ATF over pistol braces
• The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol chief testifying to Congress that the U.S. lacks “capacity” to handle illegal immigrants
• The two Texas Democrats in Congress who opposed allowing noncitizens to vote in local D.C. elections
• Texas lawmakers asking Paxton to investigate the City of Dallas over its new abortion resolution
• The Medina County Republican Party censuring a Republican Congressman
• The firing of Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk and his nearly half a million dollar severance package
• The San Antonio City Council using eminent domain to build an expansion of the Alamo Museum